I am not a scientist, but I want to translate a scientific theory for people who do not speak the difficult language of scientists. I want to discuss a new type of disease that people are not yet familiar with, and I want to do it in the language of the common man. Be patient with me.
The basis of life:
The basis of human life, some would say, the miracle begins when the sperm permeates the egg. Each of those two cells contains a half helix of its future DNA. When they come together, they form a double helix and the new cell can now reproduce. Within each half is the blueprint that will produce the entire human body. Contemplating all that this means, it is simply a staggering amount of information. This cell will divide into two, those two into four, and so on for about six months until all aspects of the human form have been shaped.
Each and every one of the DNA double helices is copied millions and millions of times, bringing within each new cell the plane of human construction. Not just any human, you, unique to all other humans. So how, then, does the body say, after creating forty million cells, know what has been created and what still needs to be created? DNA works with a sister molecule called RNA, which is a messenger. This messenger is copied throughout the body and modified to report the progress of production to each DNA. “I have two eyes, I don’t make any more eyes.” It causes the DNA to close the section of the genome that will create eyes. “I haven’t done legs yet, and I need a pair of legs, one on the left, one on the right.” The section of the genome that contains the leg plan is activated, the body begins to form legs. This does not happen sequentially, it happens simultaneously, so each cell must be conscious at the moment of creation of its purpose in the whole. It does this with epi-genomes, proteins that are located at the top of the genome to modify or block it. We will see in a minute how it is possible.
Billions of cells later, DNA is still being created in intricate parts of the human body and communicating that progress to the entire organism via the messenger, RNA. Another astonishing contemplation is that during a certain period of time it is still possible for every human being to become a woman or a man. That would indicate that each DNA contains the blueprints of two very different bodies. At some point, the body will decide to use certain plans, but not others. At the microscopic level, female and male bodies contain thousands of different unique parts, each with widely separate tasks and purposes. Fallopian tubes, testicles, prostate, breasts, bigger muscles in one, wider hips and birth canal in the other, the list is quite long. All of this means one thing: DNA has the ability to modify itself to alter the outcome of the process.
So if one is female, the DNA closes the section of construction plans that determine male characteristics, and vice versa. That’s where the epi-genome comes in. Once the nature of a cell has been communicated via RNA, a certain protein sits at the top of the right genome and enables or disables it. That’s all that is known about the process, but I’d risk guessing that a lot more is going on.
For example, there are relationships between genomes. The genome that contains the plane of the eyes also contains the color information. That genome has a relationship to the genome that codes for hair color and skin tone. If the eyes are blue, the skin tone will be light and the hair blonde. If the skin tone is dark, the hair will be black and curly, the eyes will be brown. Although the genomes are separate, the hair genome and the eye genome share a relationship. It is not known exactly how, at least I do not.
Another surprising thought is that each race contains different plans down to the level of detail. If the body is African, there will be many clear differences in the plan compared to a Caucasian. The plan for creating nostrils will be different. The plan to create skin tone, hair, eyes, lips, eyelids and who knows what else. In biracial children, at the time of creation, the half helix of the egg and the half helix of the sperm have a different idea of how to create some of these parts. So how do you decide after they come together to form the double helix whether a child should have a hooked nose or flared nostrils? Is there a vote, or perhaps a struggle to determine the dominant trait? The full understanding of the DNA molecule and how it works has yet to be discovered. I must correct myself, we have only scratched the surface of a huge discovery.
Cancer:
Cancer cells are cells that have no other function in life than to reproduce. The purpose part of the DNA has been damaged, but not the part of the plan that tells it to replicate. Normally, the body’s immune system would identify a foreign body and destroy it. With cancer cells, they still contain enough mitochondrial DNA (DNA that resides in the walls of all cells) to identify it as an integral part of the body. That way, the white blood cells, T cells, and antibodies, which would normally attack cancer, just leave it alone. RNA has little meaningful communication with the cell. “What are you going to?” question. “I am an ixmox-3,” responds the cancer cell. Having no plans to deal with the impostor, he simply lets him reproduce.
Cancer can be caused by anything that interferes with the molecular-level messages that occur in DNA. It is most susceptible during the copying process, when a cell divides into two cells. Anything that can modify DNA at the molecular level can cause damage, that is, any environmental factors, chemicals, high frequency electromagnetic fields, radiation or amino acids that do not belong in the picture or agents that change nucleic proteins (prions, for example example). ).
Let us pray:
Cancer is also a form of Prion, making it a formidable enemy. The sentences are not yet universally accepted by scientists. In the 1960s, while studying the causes of mad cow disease, a British researcher postulated that certain proteins had the ability to modify other proteins simply because they were poorly formed. The theory is this: a protein that was deformed at the time of creation sits alongside a normally formed protein and perverts the shape of its normal neighbor, thus causing disease. This was a new theory and was largely not accepted by the medical community. It is not yet fully accepted, but it is slowly gaining popularity. What is missing is an understanding of how it works. Prions can only be seen with an electron microscope. Scientists will tell you that they do not contain nucleic acids. Let me translate that: they don’t have DNA, like bacteria, and they don’t have bits of DNA like viruses. As a result, it is impossible to kill them. They live simply by the form they take. A form, like an idea, cannot be burned, poisoned, or irradiated, so prions are almost indestructible. They exist on earth even after a fire!
Epi-genomes, those amino acids found in a section of DNA that gives it meaning, can get perverted and start to simulate the construction plan. They probably act like prions to do their job simply by changing the shape of the proteins they come in contact with. Cancer genomes that are placed in a Petrie plate of normal cells will turn them all into cancer cells in one day. This could only have happened through the behavior of prions. The single genome changed the behavior of its neighboring cell, but once it was changed, the modified cell changed the behavior of its neighbors, and so on. It is not that one genome changes all the cells on the plate by itself, but that the bad behavior was transmitted exponentially. From this it can be deduced that cancer behaves like a prion, as good cells turn into bad cells. So cancer can not only reproduce, it can also change the behavior of its neighboring cells.
I’ll take my chances here and posit that the only thing that can kill (not kill, just reform) a bad prion is another prion with stronger behaviors. A differently shaped protein that is programmed to reshape the malformed protein will be the answer. In my novel, The Melongic Order of Happiness, perhaps the worst titled novel of all time, I took a chance and cut the branch. I take readers on a journey into the future to describe how humans can be reprogrammed with malformed proteins. I hope I’m wrong, but as we watch it unfold, the future holds many surprises for humanity. Looking back through history, we are amazed at human discoveries and the speed at which they are revealed to us.